Document the important moments in my life
///2018.9.24 Chicago
A re-screening of 2001: A Space Odyssey will be available at the festival in June. At that time, it was the day of the exam week and I asked my good friend 01
"Grab a ticket or make a documentary?"
We both chose the latter.
To this day, I feel that this is a decision I regret very much.
Because I wanted to take care of my regrets, it happened that Xiaobai sent me the announcement of music theatre the other day. I was surprised when I saw it.
70mm film version?
The Shanghai Film Festival is showing the restored version!!!
When I walked into the cinema myself, there was a light sign that said 2001. I looked carefully at it, and it wasn't the kind of light that digital electronics could change. Instead, it is an engraved indicator light that can only be used once. I was moved by the ceremony at the time.
When I walked in, there were more than ten pages of ppt on the screen, explaining the working principle of 70mm projection.
This is a thousand-person hall. When I bought tickets, there were still tickets left. I thought that there were very few people who came, and then the scheduled show time was full.
I started with what Zarathust said with anticipation, because I had read it once before and knew about the specific plot content, but from the iPad to the big screen, it was like every tiny star in a space odyssey, every tiny little star in the space shuttle The parts can be seen at a glance.
Combined with the texture of snowflakes and striped film, it seemed like it would take me back to 1968 all at once.
What struck me the most was the sound of the movie's sound from howling gorillas to the screeching sound of the two-minute long shot when the Earth was destroyed.
The biggest difference between a movie theater and an ipad is that on an ipad, you can turn the volume down and you can fast forward. In a movie theater, you need to endure the loud sound that Kubrick can't handle, and convert this physical pain into a mental one to get a different experience. .
Just shared this with a good friend. She said that when she watched the Wenders Film Festival before, she also found that "in the cinema, you can close your eyes to avoid the picture but you can't escape the sound."
This is also the importance of sound I felt in the cinema this time around.
This makes me continue to talk about the time of the intermission in the middle (it's amazing that it is said that the old film film like 2001 and the 160-minute film are all directors can arrange an intermission)
The lights were on and I could see two very handsome young guys sitting next to me on my left. Behind me was an uncle who looked a lot like Woody Allen.
We opened the chat box.
The young man said that his father gave him this Blu-ray disc when he was very young, but his father told him that in 2001, if there is a chance to see it in the cinema, he knows what the experience is like, so I hope he can get it.
He said he had seen all of Kubrick's films except this one, the most famous and classic. So I believe he has been waiting for so many years and today must be his big moment.
The uncle on the right began to talk about Kubrick's book that he read a few months ago. He talked about the behind the scenes of this movie. For example, in music, Kubrick didn't use the studio's music, but instead used the blue Danube. classical music. The chemistry combined in this way speaks of Kubrick's imagination surpassing science in those days without CG.
Later the intermission ended.
We continue I continue to wander in this movie.
At the end of the moment someone suddenly shouted
A thousand spectators are no longer a thousand Hamlets, and everyone applauds like thunder.
The audience was bustling out of the arena. In the dark, the boy and the uncle on the left of the cast didn't even want to get up, so I continued to sit there and listen to what Zarathust said together.
At the end, the three of us stood up and everyone stared at the screen for a while, then looked at each other and didn't speak.
The young man lowered his head and put his hand on his chin
"wow"
Then he lowered his head and clenched his fists.
The uncle said "let's go!"
The three of us moved out slowly
did not speak
When I got to the door, the uncle said
“see you guys”
The boy repeated.
I then smiled and waved to them.
On the way back I was thinking that I would never "see you" with them because people I met in the dark wouldn't necessarily recognize them even if they were walking down the street, and we didn't leave a message
I went to the cinema alone
walking out of the cinema alone
Came as an empty soul
When I left, I couldn't calm down for a long time because of that short-lived resonance
It was a big moment in my life so I decided to write it down to remember how he felt tonight when he couldn't see the light. There must be light.
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